BRIEF HISTORY OF THE LIBRARY

Nabinchandra College Central Library was started

along with the establishment of the College in 1969
in order to cater to the academic needs of the
faculty, students, and non-teaching staff. Since then,
the College Central Library has gone from strength to
live-up to the expectations of its immediate clientele.
The NC.College Central Library is one of the best
College Libraries regarding collection as well as
providing services to the users of this urban area.
 LOCATION OF THE LIBRARY

• The Central library of NC College,

Badarpur is located in the First Floor
of the Old Academic Building (103)
• Total Floor area of the Central Library
is about 2000 sq.ft.
– Floor area of the Library: 1400 sq.ft.
– Floor area of the Reading Room: 600
sq.ft.
LIBRARY LAYOUT
 MISSION OF THE LIBRARY

• Understand the research, teaching, and learning needs of its users.

• Acquisition and conservation of all significant printed and non-
print materials.
• Rendering of bibliographical and documents services of current
and retrospective material, both general and specialized.
• Provide access to and promote the discovery and use of local and
external information resources
• Create hospitable physical and virtual environments for study,
teaching, and research
• Acting as a referral centre purveying full and accurate knowledge.
• Advance local, national, and international library and information
initiatives; Develop, encourage, and sustain expertise, skill,
commitment and an innovative spirit in its staff.
• And to follow the mission of its parent organization
OBJECTIVES OF THE LIBRARY

The objectives of our

Library are the five
fundamental laws stated
by Dr. S.R.Ranganathan,
T the Father of the Library
Science in India.
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 PURPOSES/ FUNCTIONS

The College is proud of its library. The main

purpose of the Library is
• Development of collection
• organization of the collected documents
• Dissemination of those documents to the
right users specially, to the poor and needy
students who come from the rural areas of
the nearby locality at the right time.
 WORKING HOURS OF THE LIBRARY

The Library remains open on all working

days from 10-00am to 5-00 pm except on
Sundays and other national and gazetted
holidays.
 LIBRARY COLLECTION

• Text Books-
• Reference Books
• Donated Books
• Book Bank
• Journals
• Newspapers
• CD/DVD
 E-RESOURCES

E-resources under INFLIBNET N-List &

Shudh Sindhu
E-Books-3135000
E-Journals- 10000+
E-Resources under National Digital
Library, IIT, KGP.
60 types and 10 Million
E-Books CD-
 INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES
 College Prospectus
 College Magazine
 Old Question Papers
 University Syllabus
 NC College Students’ Union Constitution
 College Publication
o Edusearch
o Quality of Higher Education in Rural Areas:
Issues and Perspectives in North-East India.
o Learning Language and literature
 SOCIAL MEDIA/FACEBOOK GROUP

We Provide Institutional Repositories to our

users through Facebook group by clicking this
link https: // touch. facebook. com/
groups/1844140519039417 ? ref = bookmarks.
 COLLEGE PUBLICATION

• Edusearch: A Bi-lingual Multi-

disciplinary Annual Research Journal
with ISSN No. 2395 and one book
• “ QUALITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN
RURAL AREAS: ISSUES AND
PERSPECTIVES IN NORTHEAST INDIA ”
with ISBN No. 978-93-82965-25-1 are
also stocked in the Central Library.
 BORROWING FACILITIES GIVEN TO DIFFERENT CATEGORY OF USERS
 

Sl No. Category of Users Entitled to borrow Period of Loan

1. TDC Students 02 7 days

2. TDC Students (Hons) 03 7 days
3. Faculty Members 25 One Academic Year
4. Part Time Faculty members 10 21 days
5. College Administrative Staff 05 21 days
6. Non-teaching Staff 03 21 days
 SECTIONS OF THE CENTRAL LIBRARY
• Stack Section:
• Technical Section:
• Reference Section:
• Journal/Periodical/Magazine Section
• Newspaper Section
• Old Journal Section
• Book Bank Section
• Circulation Section
• New Arrival Display Section
• Reading Room
• Digital Library
• E-Resources access
AUTOMATION OF THE CENTRAL LIBRARY
• The College Library is automated with KOHA
Library Management software.
• All the house keeping operations of the
central library are carried out through the
computer. RFID as well as Barcode Library
Management System is being introduced for
fast and accurate circulation service.
 DIGITAL LIBRARY

The state of the art Digital Library Management

Software D-space, developed by MIT, USA and
Hewlett Packard will be installed shortly in the
Central Library of NC College, Badarpur. This open
source software will be customized to suit with our
requirements. D-space accepts all forms of the
digital materials including text, images, video and
audio files for future access as and when required
by users.
 SERVICES OF THE CENTRAL LIBRARY

Reading Room Service

Lending Service (Home issue for 7 days, Day issue
during college hours, and Overnight issue.
Book Plus Service (The books added subject wise
in the last year)
Reference and Information Service
Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC)
CD-ROM Searching
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 SERVICES OF THE CENTRAL LIBRARY

 Display of New Arrivals

 Internet Service
 E-mail Service
 Current Awareness Service.
 Newspaper Clippings
 User Orientation
 E-Resource Access
 ACTIVITIES OF THE CENTRAL LIBRARY

Book Bank

‘Suggestion Box’ is kept in the library Reading

Room. Once in a week it is opened and
suggestions are taken care off.
 
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 ACTIVITIES OF THE CENTRAL LIBRARY

BEST LIBRARY USER AWARD -2017

To motivate the students to
make the efficient use of the library
and its services, “Brajagopal
Chakrabarty- Anjali Chakrabarty
Best Library User Award” has been
started from the session 2014-2015.
Two students are selected one from
the boys and one from the girls, on
the basis of the statistical data,
accession of books, reading
aptitude of the student, utilization
of library resources, discipline and
the review of the librarian.